Biggest logging shock?

suerlewis2
suerlewis2 Posts: 126 Member
in Motivation and Support
Morning All

I'm new here and am logging over the holidays before I start my lifestyle changes, to have a record of just how awful I treat my body at the moment, and of course identify the real "hot-spots." I promised to be brutally honest. Oh boy.

After just one day - my very first day - there is no longer any mystery of why I am over-weight!

I knew it would be bad, but it was almost comical HOW bad. :o

So I'm curious - what was your biggest logging shocker? No need to be specific if you don't feel comfortable - and of course please post the positive ones too !

I'll start.

Yesterday, I consumed more than 2000 calories OVER my goal. The only number not in the red was protein. WOW. Very motivational.

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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,592 Member
    Pears, nuts, and breakfast cereal were all higher than I expected.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    peanut butter.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    Nuts and cheese were my big surprises. I used to snack on "healthy" nuts all the time, about 1000 calories a day worth. And finding out how many calories worth of olive oil I used was saddening.

    I'm a diabetic and learning how many carbs were in pasta was pretty sorrowful too! And karo pecan pie.
  • 88olds
    88olds Posts: 4,532 Member
    edited December 2017
    A casual chain restaurant salad came it at 1000 cals. My big shock was realizing how many 3000-4000+ calorie day’s I had probably put in.
  • lucerorojo
    lucerorojo Posts: 790 Member
    Lots of shockers. The latest was olives.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I've been logging quite well for 2 years and just this week had an 'aha' moment about logging.

    Here's how it happened. I found an old recipe from my long dead mother, and cooked it for Christmas. As I cooked, I did not weigh anything. When I logged, I used a generic database entry which seemed to be about right for calories and macros.

    Afterward, I used the recipe calculator to create a recipe of the dish which I could use later to get my calories really accurate. Even so, my recipe calculator results tell me that my recipe was half the calories I logged. Half? I was being as precise as I could image being when I created the recipe using exactly as much as the ingredients weigh. I can weigh a cup of sugar. I can weigh an egg. I know how much I put in. Still something's wrong about my memory logging, and I've been bumfuzzled about it.

    That I can be so experienced and so careful, and still so wrong, is a shock. This reinforces that I must weigh everything at the time of using it, as something about my memory and my assumptions is off, and I don't yet know what it is.
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  • LEdmonds2016
    LEdmonds2016 Posts: 139 Member
    My biggest shocker were salads. I thought that because it's a salad, it must be healthy.. and then I started weighing and logging what actually went into the salad. I could easily eat my allotted calories for the day in one salad. That still just blows my mind.
  • AuthorNinja
    AuthorNinja Posts: 69 Member
    Heckin sonic java chiller, the mini 10 oz size. 580 calories, I think. The day I had it was just a treat, but my god, I was better off with an ice cream cone :D
  • Aplant77
    Aplant77 Posts: 112 Member
    Going out to eat - it's amazing the amount of calories restaurants feed you. I think I lost most of my weight just by cutting back my eating out. And desserts! I find they aren't as appetizing now that I know how many calories are in a slice of cake or pie.
  • DebLaBounty
    DebLaBounty Posts: 1,169 Member
    edited December 2017
    Nuts. A single serving of cashews is a mere 10 nuts for 150 calories. I used to eat them by the handful because they are a healthy food.
  • Iwantahealthierme30
    Iwantahealthierme30 Posts: 293 Member
    Mangos - 210 cals, they are so good but not worth the calories for me
  • newheavensearth
    newheavensearth Posts: 870 Member
    That I can go to the movies, eat the small popcorn, candy, and have half a soda and still be in my goal at the end of the day.

    It was possible because I planned a light breakfast and dinner afterwards. Totally doable.
  • JacklynSullivan
    JacklynSullivan Posts: 5 Member
    Alcohol - you don't really realize how much is in each drink and it's very easy to have several in one evening!
  • arnoldchristopher
    arnoldchristopher Posts: 3 Member
    As always, the truth between what I thought I was eating (both in size of meals and caloric content). Once I honestly tracked a few weeks, it was plainly (and painfully) obvious where my efforts at changing my lifestyle needed to be.
  • yaddakadu
    yaddakadu Posts: 30 Member
    Everything is so loaded with salt and sugar. It was so off putting to see the crazy amounts of salt and sugar I was ingesting.
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    Bread. I love the stuff but it is calorie dense. I cut back on it but never gave it up, but eating half a fresh bread is not happening unless planned
  • crazykatlady820
    crazykatlady820 Posts: 301 Member
    At Thanksgiving my family always wants me to make Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake. I put the recipe into the recipe builder and nearly died when I saw the calories per serving. I mean... I should have figured because there are a billion sticks of butter in it, but I've been making it for so long that I just didn't think about it.

    On the opposite end, I was also shocked by how few calories are in my homemade chili. Chili is my favorite and I'm glad I can easily fit my two bowls into my calories when I make it.
  • RacheLoko
    RacheLoko Posts: 51 Member
    The biggest shock was seeing how out of whack my macros were before logging properly
  • erbear117
    erbear117 Posts: 62 Member
    Alcohol. A glass and a half of wine = a meal.
    After a 10 hour work day, it seems I have to choose between dinner or a glass of wine. Thankfully I don't drink that much.
  • jesspen91
    jesspen91 Posts: 1,383 Member
    Alcohol was definitely one for me especially my beloved craft beers

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